Tag Archives: Neil Foster

Sunday XI beat Warfield – Ali Mac 300

Sunday 7th May 2023
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 205 for 9 (40 overs)
Warfield 132 for 8 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 73 runs

Strong Saturday availability led to the chance to assemble a team and source a fixture for Sunday. Thanks to those who made themselves available, and to George for being able to get another game out of last week’s strip. Read more

“I get out caught a lot”

Followers of our Twitter page would have seen us recently capture details of our active players with the most number of innings having never been dismissed leg before. (For those who hadn’t seen it Geoff Vinall tops that list with a current run of 51 innings from debut and never been lbw.) Read more

Local Derby Win in Rod’s Last Match

Sunday 28th August 2022
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 218 for 7 (40 overs)
Maori Oxshott 123 all out (31.1 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 95 runs

If Carlsberg did ways to end a career.

This match saw Rod Thomson’s playing days at Stoke come to an end, and he would end with the wicket to close out victory against Maori Oxshott who were not only kind enough to come to us to play having advertised for a home game themselves, but they would also provide a guard of honour and invite us to bat despite winning the toss on a warm afternoon. Read more

Sunday XI end very long losing streak with very quick victory

Sunday 21st August 2022
Friendly
Leatherhead 72 all out (23.5 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 73 for 1 (10 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 9 wickets

Stoke’s Sunday XI ended an eight game losing streak with an emphatic victory over a Leatherhead side on a similar but not as lengthy run. Read more

Over 40s post record score but No Result

Monday 15th August 2022
Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon Over 40s 210 for 3 (20 overs)
Leatherhead Over 40s 17 for 1 (2.3 overs)
Match Abandoned

The heat can make people do the most comical or amazing things. A dousing of water is often a good cure and whilst we got one, sadly it came at an inappropriate time. Read more

Saturday League Round Up

Saturday 21st May 2022
Surrey Championship Division 1
Valley End 222 all out (41.3 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 220 all out (45.4 overs)
Valley End won by 2 runs

An second agonising defeat in three days for Stoke who had seemingly done the hard yards only to come up short. Read more

3rd XI beat Egham

Saturday 14th May 2022
Surrey Championship Division 5 West
Stoke D’Abernon 3rd XI 163 for 9 (40 overs)
Egham 137 for 9 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 3rd XI won by 26 runs

It was all hands to the pump this week with injuries and Saturday schools cricket making populating an XI a challenge; but with some much appreciated assistance from players who would normally play Sunday XI matches plus help from the Over 40s squad a team of entirely over 40s/50s/60s played out a great game at the new 3rd XI venue. Thanks to Will Gudgeon for using his influence to secure Parkside school for us going forward. Read more

Player Awards 2021

After the last round of League matches the players made it back to base from various parts of the county to celebrate the end of the League campaign that saw the 1st XI remain in Division 1 after their first ever season at that level; the 2nd XI and newly formed 3rd XI both secured promotion. To complete the senior representation there was also a full programme of Sunday XI and Over 40s fixtures…in short a record number of senior competitive games played this year. Read more

Rob Butler Century but Sunday XI Defeated by 3 runs

Sunday 12th September 2021
Friendly
Odney 209 for 8 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 206 for 6 (40 overs)
Odney won by 3 runs

A call early in the week from Odney was very welcome. Having lost their originally carded opposition they gave us first refusal on stepping in. Read more